His memory enhancements are only lookup based voluntary systems, so they aren't integral.
Right, I wasn't thinking really it was integral per se, more of a crutch that was suddenly taken away from him.
As for the glasses, I remembered a comment about him going to a store, and causing some fuss, and how he would take off his glasses and put them on repeatedly (the poster was downplaying that he really wore them constantly). But I could be wrong.
In any case, I still think it seems very likely that any augmentation of this kind could become a crutch (therefore dulling other functions/senses).
Not that this is bad, necessarily. We have it happening already.
Well, that was why I also mentioned he was having trouble also later on. Slashdot search seems to be having some trouble, but I thought he was having trouble recalling things as well, and just some general functioning after the incident was over.
I also thought he didn't wear the glasses at all times anyway.
Well if you take the Canadian airport "fiasco" with the other cyborg from a few days back as evidence, it seems that, yes, normal senses do become weaker by having this "crutch" (since the guy then needed to be wheeled into the plane and has since been having trouble functioning normally... could be the shock as well though).
There's also Quorn, which according to NPR is a popular european meat-substitute. It's made from fungus (not mushrooms, lower than that), and doesn't even require being farmed like soy beans. It can simply be made in a fermentation plant.
Sounded interesting, and apparently it tastes pretty good.
right now it's just the suckers (and there are a lot of 'em... but the number isn't infinite.)
One born every minute, or so the saying goes. Enough people still seem to be switching long-distance services when they receive telephone solicitations, so I don't see spam stopping anytime soon.
Yeah, it's those extras that I love too. I can organize my photos, then use some 3rd party app to touch them up. Then I can order prints to be delivered (I've been using this a lot). It's not like iPhoto is the only place to do this, but it is so simple and, well, fun!
It was worthwhile for them to release a Macintosh client, and at some point the beancounters will have to admit that it's worthwhile to support Linux.
I believe that Macintosh had the original AOL client. Then at some point they made a Windows one, because Windows was becoming the "standard".
My point is that there was never a time when AOL said, "well, we need to create a Macintosh client", because that client always existed. They just had to deem it worth maintaining(which they do at a slower pace than the windows version), and that's not as expensive.
Yeah, that's just shortsighted, and it's really the only thing in the list where he just sort of gives his opinion on if a product will do well.
The comparison made me think of what it might have been like when automobiles were first coming into use. Compared with a horse it was bulkier, heavier, slower, more complicated, and silly-looking. As we all know, that auto-mobile fad ended long ago... right?
If you don't mind the mindless, censored, cut for commercials crap they show on TV networks, fine. However if you want something of a bit higher quality, then I suggest trying anime
What if you dislike cartoons where the dialog stinks and is delivered poorly? What if you don't like sexism? What if you don't like every cartoon to be drawn in the same general style? What if you saw an episode of the new Transformers where it is done in an anime style and it is the biggest pile of CRAP you have ever laid eyes on? What if you think Adult Swim (before cowboy bebop) and the Powerpuff Girls are great?
What makes the movies you like inherently superior? (Clue: they aren't.)
What if I don't want to "learn" how to enjoy a cartoon genre, anime or not?
That's great that you like anime and all, but get over it.
Does this mean that Amazon really does not want to patent this process? They had to do it only because, if they don't someone else will do and Amazon have to battle them in court?
Doesn't look like that to me. They didn't just get the patent and hold on to it so they could go about their business. They licensed it at least to Apple, and they filed a lawsuit against B&N for making something similar. This sounds like more of the same corporate stuff to me.
I've noticed Rob say a number of times that the biggest thing deterring Slashdot from doing flat-rate subscriptions is the few who load a TON of pages a day, and they can't support that.
Here's the thing: those people will be there whether you have flat rate or not. The only way to keep these people away would be to have Slashdot be closed to the public. Otherwise, a person who would load a ton of times each day will just plain not pay per view.
If these people who load tons are going to be here no matter what... wouldn't you like to get $5 per month from some of them, instead of nothing from any of them?
I don't care if it turns out to be a better deal to do pay-per-view. Maybe I'll get 3 months of viewing out of it. But I'll hate page-pinching every time I read, and the page-pinching will be unavoidable and in the back of my mind all the time. Give me the chance to just have peace of mind.
This would be like a judge telling me "I think you killed this man, but I can't make the evidence 'stick', so let's settle at, say, half the normal sentence."
No, it's more like "We find the defendant guilty. Now for the sentence...
Prosecution: "Hmmm, I just don't think we have a strong enough case."
Someone sane: "But you won!"
Prosecution: "Well, we're willing to settle because we don't really have a good case."
Someone sane: "But you... what?"
Basically they say "we can't prove they're guilty" in which case the old 'innocent until proven guilty' applies (sadly enough in this case)...
No, they are proven guilty already, that's the crazy thing. We're just supposed to be deciding the punishment.
I've been banging my head against the wall about this for so long, it's getting misshapen.
I assume it's related to the technology that we have at my college. We just wave our student ID in front of this reader and it unlocks the door. And if the speedpass technology is related to our cards, then I absolutely don't trust it. Why? This is a small college in Wisconsin. When I visited UC-Berkeley in CA, I accidentally discovered when walking past the doors that my student ID opened any dorm on the Berkeley campus. Students at Berkeley even have to use keys to get in the buildings (I think the reader was for the disabled), but I (and every person at my WI college) have a skeleton key to the whole place!
Plus it makes the door open automatically, while the real students have to pull it open themselves;]
But seriously, why should I trust the speedpass et al to be any different?
In some ways it's true. I remember seeing the Fast and the Furious this summer (we wanted to see the new Ultrascreen and that's what was playing, ok?). It was almost scary driving out of the parking garage with all the foolish teenagers peeling out of there like they were one of the street racers. (Granted, teenagers tend to do that kind of driving anyway, but this was much higher than normal.)
However, that was coming down from the excitement of having just seen the movie, and probably wore off on the way home. This Columbine thing was drawn out and planned. I think this goes far beyond the realm of slight subliminal influence.
Well there's that penis embedded in the castle on the cover of the little mermaid VHS box. It was changed once this was discovered, but we have 2 copies at home, and it's pretty easy to see.
I dunno. I wouldn't pay $9.95 a month to read Something Awful, but I don't get to Slashdot very often, so I like the pay per view as an option.
I can see that. I guess if they want to make the max number of people happy they could offer a choice between flat per month and 1000 pages, so people who would stretch the 1000 much further than a month could do that option.
But as for me... flat rate? Almost definitely would pay (unless it was $20 or something). Pay-per-page? Not a chance.
Frankly we doubt that 3% will really pay us at all.
Well, then please don't rule out a flat-rate model.
Here's why a pay-per-view model doesn't work in the Slashdot world: those people whom the model is trying to limit are people who won't pay. This would be fine if Slashdot was not public. Those people wouldn't pay, you'd make less money, but your costs would be less too. Since that isn't the case for Slashdot, you'll have less income because of people who don't like the pay-per-view, but you'll still have the same cost as you have now!
I'd like to do a flat rate, but we have a tiny percentage of users that load thousands of pages a week.
Yes, but those people will still be there whether you have a flat rate or a per-use rate. If it is expensive for those people to pay per 1000 pages, they will do the no-subscription route.
Plus, now that you'll be getting payments from lots of people for the site, you can afford the minority doing this.
The comfort and convenience of a flat-rate service *far* exceeds getting those few obsessed pay loaders to *possibly* pay extra money (if they do decide to pay).
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Right, I wasn't thinking really it was integral per se, more of a crutch that was suddenly taken away from him.
As for the glasses, I remembered a comment about him going to a store, and causing some fuss, and how he would take off his glasses and put them on repeatedly (the poster was downplaying that he really wore them constantly). But I could be wrong.
In any case, I still think it seems very likely that any augmentation of this kind could become a crutch (therefore dulling other functions/senses).
Not that this is bad, necessarily. We have it happening already.
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Well, that was why I also mentioned he was having trouble also later on. Slashdot search seems to be having some trouble, but I thought he was having trouble recalling things as well, and just some general functioning after the incident was over.
I also thought he didn't wear the glasses at all times anyway.
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Well if you take the Canadian airport "fiasco" with the other cyborg from a few days back as evidence, it seems that, yes, normal senses do become weaker by having this "crutch" (since the guy then needed to be wheeled into the plane and has since been having trouble functioning normally... could be the shock as well though).
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There's also Quorn, which according to NPR is a popular european meat-substitute. It's made from fungus (not mushrooms, lower than that), and doesn't even require being farmed like soy beans. It can simply be made in a fermentation plant.
Sounded interesting, and apparently it tastes pretty good.
(Mmmm... Quorn Dogs...)
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One born every minute, or so the saying goes. Enough people still seem to be switching long-distance services when they receive telephone solicitations, so I don't see spam stopping anytime soon.
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Yeah, it's those extras that I love too. I can organize my photos, then use some 3rd party app to touch them up. Then I can order prints to be delivered (I've been using this a lot). It's not like iPhoto is the only place to do this, but it is so simple and, well, fun!
mark
I believe that Macintosh had the original AOL client. Then at some point they made a Windows one, because Windows was becoming the "standard".
My point is that there was never a time when AOL said, "well, we need to create a Macintosh client", because that client always existed. They just had to deem it worth maintaining(which they do at a slower pace than the windows version), and that's not as expensive.
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Yeah, that's just shortsighted, and it's really the only thing in the list where he just sort of gives his opinion on if a product will do well.
The comparison made me think of what it might have been like when automobiles were first coming into use. Compared with a horse it was bulkier, heavier, slower, more complicated, and silly-looking. As we all know, that auto-mobile fad ended long ago... right?
The list is pretty decent overall though.
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"schizophrenogenic waltz"
It ends up being someone whose last name is Waltz. Does that count among the elite googlewhackers?
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What if you dislike cartoons where the dialog stinks and is delivered poorly? What if you don't like sexism? What if you don't like every cartoon to be drawn in the same general style? What if you saw an episode of the new Transformers where it is done in an anime style and it is the biggest pile of CRAP you have ever laid eyes on? What if you think Adult Swim (before cowboy bebop) and the Powerpuff Girls are great?
What makes the movies you like inherently superior? (Clue: they aren't.)
What if I don't want to "learn" how to enjoy a cartoon genre, anime or not?
That's great that you like anime and all, but get over it.
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Man, the census has gotten accurate in recent years!
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Music industry exec: "Yes, you see, all along it turns out that 'CD' stood for 'Copyprotected Disc'."
They are sneaky!
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Doesn't look like that to me. They didn't just get the patent and hold on to it so they could go about their business. They licensed it at least to Apple, and they filed a lawsuit against B&N for making something similar. This sounds like more of the same corporate stuff to me.
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I've noticed Rob say a number of times that the biggest thing deterring Slashdot from doing flat-rate subscriptions is the few who load a TON of pages a day, and they can't support that.
Here's the thing: those people will be there whether you have flat rate or not. The only way to keep these people away would be to have Slashdot be closed to the public. Otherwise, a person who would load a ton of times each day will just plain not pay per view.
If these people who load tons are going to be here no matter what... wouldn't you like to get $5 per month from some of them, instead of nothing from any of them?
I don't care if it turns out to be a better deal to do pay-per-view. Maybe I'll get 3 months of viewing out of it. But I'll hate page-pinching every time I read, and the page-pinching will be unavoidable and in the back of my mind all the time. Give me the chance to just have peace of mind.
That's all!
mark
Ah, Microsoft got their hands on the new speedpass watch! This thing is more powerful than we thought.
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No, it's more like "We find the defendant guilty. Now for the sentence...
Prosecution: "Hmmm, I just don't think we have a strong enough case."
Someone sane: "But you won!"
Prosecution: "Well, we're willing to settle because we don't really have a good case."
Someone sane: "But you... what?"
No, they are proven guilty already, that's the crazy thing. We're just supposed to be deciding the punishment.
I've been banging my head against the wall about this for so long, it's getting misshapen.
mark
I was about to correct you on your spelling of "innovation", but then I realized that's probably the way Bush spelled it!
Zing!
markI assume it's related to the technology that we have at my college. We just wave our student ID in front of this reader and it unlocks the door. And if the speedpass technology is related to our cards, then I absolutely don't trust it. Why? This is a small college in Wisconsin. When I visited UC-Berkeley in CA, I accidentally discovered when walking past the doors that my student ID opened any dorm on the Berkeley campus. Students at Berkeley even have to use keys to get in the buildings (I think the reader was for the disabled), but I (and every person at my WI college) have a skeleton key to the whole place!
Plus it makes the door open automatically, while the real students have to pull it open themselves ;]
But seriously, why should I trust the speedpass et al to be any different?
markAh, that's right! Thanks for the correction. I'm gonna go with this compromise though:
In some ways it's true. I remember seeing the Fast and the Furious this summer (we wanted to see the new Ultrascreen and that's what was playing, ok?). It was almost scary driving out of the parking garage with all the foolish teenagers peeling out of there like they were one of the street racers. (Granted, teenagers tend to do that kind of driving anyway, but this was much higher than normal.)
However, that was coming down from the excitement of having just seen the movie, and probably wore off on the way home. This Columbine thing was drawn out and planned. I think this goes far beyond the realm of slight subliminal influence.
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Actually, "C" is about dead-on average, I'd say!
markWell there's that penis embedded in the castle on the cover of the little mermaid VHS box. It was changed once this was discovered, but we have 2 copies at home, and it's pretty easy to see.
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I can see that. I guess if they want to make the max number of people happy they could offer a choice between flat per month and 1000 pages, so people who would stretch the 1000 much further than a month could do that option.
But as for me... flat rate? Almost definitely would pay (unless it was $20 or something). Pay-per-page? Not a chance.
markWell, then please don't rule out a flat-rate model.
Here's why a pay-per-view model doesn't work in the Slashdot world: those people whom the model is trying to limit are people who won't pay. This would be fine if Slashdot was not public. Those people wouldn't pay, you'd make less money, but your costs would be less too. Since that isn't the case for Slashdot, you'll have less income because of people who don't like the pay-per-view, but you'll still have the same cost as you have now!
markYes, but those people will still be there whether you have a flat rate or a per-use rate. If it is expensive for those people to pay per 1000 pages, they will do the no-subscription route.
Plus, now that you'll be getting payments from lots of people for the site, you can afford the minority doing this.
The comfort and convenience of a flat-rate service *far* exceeds getting those few obsessed pay loaders to *possibly* pay extra money (if they do decide to pay).
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